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Family Day To-Go Carl Holty: Romantic Modernist

About This Exhibition

Carl Holty was born in Freiburg, Germany, in 1900. When he was a baby his family moved to the United States. As a teenager, Holty took art classes and made cartoons for the local newspaper.

As an adult, he focused on painting colors, lines and shapes. He is c...

Foil Print Still Life

Catherine Murphy’s “Still Life With Reproductions” shows a table from the point of view of someone sitting at it. What do you notice about this still life? Look closer at the book. The images on the pages are floral arrangements. They’re still lifes within a still ...

Toddler Tuesday: Leaves and Trees

It’s cooling off outside and fall is just around the corner. You can already see leaves changing and falling to the ground. 

This painting is about autumn. It is named “October Wind and Sunlight in the Woods.” Take a mo...

Gallery Gumshoes: Plastic Wrap Abstractions

The artist Carl Holty makes works of abstract art. Abstract art does not show people, places or things the way they appear in everyday life. Abstract artists simplify images in shapes, colors and lines. Check out our Gallery Gumshoes scavenge...

Family Day: The Thompson Collection of African American Art

In 2012, collectors Larry and Brenda Thompson donated 100 works of art by African American artists to the Georgia Museum of Art. Their collection includes paintings, prints and sculpture dating from the 1890s to the present. Family Day this month takes a closer look at three works of art from thi...

Ripped Paper Seascapes

Hiroshige was a Japanese artist who made woodblock prints of everyday life. He used bright colors and creative perspectives to show natural beauty. Instead of using books or history to inspire his works of art, he created prints that show what anyone might see outside in Japan. This made his art ...

Toddler Tuesday: Water is Wet

It’s August, the last month of the summer. It is hot outside! One good way to cool off is to play in water. 

Do you see water in this picture? Let’s take a moment to look at it. What else do you see?

Leaf Rubbings

“Broken Leaf” shows the complicated, delicate designs of different leaves. Nancy Azara created this work of art by printing the raised parts of leaves, like the veins and the edges. All of her art, including many big, carved sculptures, is made from different parts of trees. Trees inspire Azara b...

Family Day: Everyday Art

Family Day this month focuses on a style of art called realism. This kind of art started in France in the 1840s. Realist artists tried to capture the people and experiences they saw around them. Earlier artists thought these things were too common to paint. Read on to learn more about realism. Th...

Coloring Pages: Elaborate Vases

Need more coloring pages? Philip and Juanita Greenspan donated these steel engravings of ornate vases that are perfect for your favorite crayons, pencils or markers. Philip said, “Vases are something we use in everyday life but the artist can take that basic form and turn it into something visual...